Ramanathan V. Guha (1965) is an Indian computer scientist. Since May 2005, he has been working at Google. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Google, Inc. ...

Guha was one of the early co-leaders of the Cyc Project where he worked from 1987 through 1994 at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation. He was responsible for the design and implementation of key parts of the Cyc system, including the CycL knowledge representation language, the upper ontological layers of the Cyc Knowledge Base and some parts of the original Cyc Natural Language understanding system. Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and database of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... The MCC headquarters building in Austin, Texas Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) was the first, and is now one of the largest, United States computer industry research and development consortia. ... CycL was originally a frame language used by Doug Lenats Cyc Artificial Intelligence project. ... Knowledge representation is an issue that arises in both cognitive science and artificial intelligence. ...

Leaving what became Cycorp, Guha founded Q Technology, which created a database schema mapping tool called Babelfish. In 1995, he moved to work at Apple Computer, reporting to Alan Kay, where he developed the Meta Content Framework (MCF) format. In 1997 he joined Netscape Corporation where together with Tim Bray, he created a new version of MCF called Resource Description Framework (RDF), that used the XML language. Guha also contributed to the "smart browsing" features of Netscape 4.5 and was instrumental in Netscape's acquisition of the Open Directory Project. In March 1999, he created the first version of RSS as part of Netscape's personalized home page project. In 1999 he left Netscape and in May co-founded Epinions where he worked until 2000. Guha founded Alpiri in late 2000 which created TAP, a semantic web application and knowledge base. In 2002, he became a researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center. In 2005 Guha joined Google. Cycorp, Inc. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Apple Inc. ... Alan Kay during an interview. ... Meta Content Framework (MCF) was a specification of a format for structuring metadata information about web sites and other data. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Netscape Communications Corporation was the publisher of the Netscape Navigator web browser as well as many other internet and intranet client and server software products. ... Timothy William Bray (born 1955), commonly known as Tim Bray, co-invented XML and XML namespaces while an Invited Expert at the World Wide Web Consortium between 1996 and 1999. ... Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata model using XML but which has come to be used as a general method of modeling knowledge, through a variety of syntax formats (XML and non-XML). ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language that supports a wide variety of applications. ... The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as dmoz (from directory. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Epinions. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Look up tap in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Semantic Web is a project to create a universal medium for information exchange by putting documents with computer-processable meaning (semantics) on the World Wide Web. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The IBM Almaden Research Center, located near San Jose, California is one of IBMs research centers, specializing in both basic research in material science and applied research in things like computer storage, where many refinements and improvements were made in hard disc drive technology. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Google, Inc. ...

References

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• Guha and RDF - an article written by Marc Andreessen for netscape.com